ITANAGAR, April 1 ( APNEI) – Tired of pollution ? We gave you methane petrol , now take “Bio diesel…was the kind of assurance the union minister of state for rural development” Annasaheb MK Patil, a technocrat turned politician having a coveted American university engineering degree, gave to the northeasterners.
Talking to the media persons here Patil made a sensational disclosure that the entire northeast, Arunachal Pradesh in particular, was the hub of jetropa plant, found also in south India, which has already proved its potential in virtually substituting diesel.
Experiments were successful when jetropa mixed diesel had fuelled several runs of a Delhi –Amritsar train a month ago, said Patil who was the man behind making mandatory the mixing of methane with petrol and now preparing to bring through the legislation of jetropa-diesel mix for vehicular use which when in vogue would bring down the pollution curse to almost zero, said a confident Patil.
Patil spread around a contagious confidence of his vision about the future of the north east, Arunachal Pradesh included, in regard to the biodiversity potential of the region where the medicinal plants were awaiting the Ayurveda invasion to make the “life of the Indians an experience of the bliss of health.